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A review by andrew_c
The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow
1.0
To put it mildly, a disappointing, boring and stupid waste of an excellent title from the 2 high priests of the singularity. With a name like Rapture of the Nerds, you would expect a decent satire or deconstruction of the quite frankly rather stupid & utopian concept of the singularity.
Instead we get a few mild pokes at it and weak attempts at humour that fall flat, some of which surprisingly and I suspect inadvertently come across as painfully stupid racial stereotypes. Otherwise it's just a tramp through the same tired stereotypes & cliches.
Stross can write a decent book when he is on form and his Cthulu Mythos stuff is top notch, but his singularity books have always been his weakest. And this is the weakest of those.
And if this is typical of Doctorow's fiction then I won't bother reading any more of it.
It reads rather like they read someone using the term on reddit (or BoingBoing, if anyone apart from Doctorow still uses it) and thought they'd better get something out using the term before someone else wrote the book. Or maybe just ruin the term for everyone.
Instead we get a few mild pokes at it and weak attempts at humour that fall flat, some of which surprisingly and I suspect inadvertently come across as painfully stupid racial stereotypes. Otherwise it's just a tramp through the same tired stereotypes & cliches.
Stross can write a decent book when he is on form and his Cthulu Mythos stuff is top notch, but his singularity books have always been his weakest. And this is the weakest of those.
And if this is typical of Doctorow's fiction then I won't bother reading any more of it.
It reads rather like they read someone using the term on reddit (or BoingBoing, if anyone apart from Doctorow still uses it) and thought they'd better get something out using the term before someone else wrote the book. Or maybe just ruin the term for everyone.